Silicon-32 as a tool for dating the recent past

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2009

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Fifield, L Keith
Morgenstern, Uwe

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Elsevier

Abstract

Silicon-32, with a half-life of approximately 140 years, has the potential to fill the dating gap that lies between those chronologies based on the shorter-lived isotopes of 3H and 210Pb, and those based on the longer-lived 14C. Silicon-32 is produced in

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Keywords: chronology; concentration (composition); dating method; half life; measurement method; silicon Accelerator mass spectrometry; Dating; Radiometric counting; Recent past; Silicon-32

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Quaternary Geochronology

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Journal article

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